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Roque N, Fernandez P, Silveira C, Vilas-Boas M, Anjos O. Using Analytic Hierarchy Process to Assess Beekeeping Suitability in Portuguese Controlled Areas: A First Approach. Insects 2024; 15:91. [PMID: 38392511 PMCID: PMC10888816 DOI: 10.3390/insects15020091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 01/20/2024] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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Beekeeping management is greatly influenced by spatial factors (e.g., land use/land cover, roads, or electrical energy networks), so GIS are a powerful tool to overlap and relate a variety of spatial data levels and, consequently, a very useful tool for beekeeping activity planning. This study was developed within the intervention area of three controlled zones managed by Portuguese Beekeepers Associations. The methodology, based on multi-criteria decision analysis, integrates several criteria, such as hydrographic networks, road networks, soil occupation, solar radiation, and electromagnetic radiation sources. These criteria were proposed and evaluated through online questionnaires carried out with beekeepers. Concerning the selected criteria and the respective geographical data, the most relevant were land use/land cover and water availability, with a significance of 44% and 24%, respectively. The beekeeping suitability map enabled us to evaluate the degree of compliance for the actual location of apiaries, with 60% of the apiaries being installed in high potential areas. In the context of beekeeping planning, the potential of the techniques applied seems to be an important tool for optimizing the location of apiaries and the profitability of beekeeping.
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- Natália Roque
- IPCB-Agrarian School, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-084 Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- IPCB-Agrarian School, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-084 Castelo Branco, Portugal
- CERNAS-IPCB-Research Centre for Natural Resources, Environment and Society, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-084 Castelo Branco, Portugal
- MED&CHANGE-Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development & CHANGE-Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Universidade de Évora, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal
- Laboratório Associado para a Sustentabilidade e Tecnologia em Regiões de Montanha (SusTEC), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal
- Laboratório Associado para a Sustentabilidade e Tecnologia em Regiões de Montanha (SusTEC), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal
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- IPCB-Agrarian School, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-084 Castelo Branco, Portugal
- CERNAS-IPCB-Research Centre for Natural Resources, Environment and Society, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-084 Castelo Branco, Portugal
- Centro de Estudos Florestais (CEF), Laboratório Associado TERRA, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
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Almeida AM, Delgado F, Roque N, Ribeiro MM, Fernandez P. Multitemporal Land Use and Cover Analysis Coupled with Climatic Change Scenarios to Protect the Endangered Taxon Asphodelus bento-rainhae subsp. bento-rainhae. Plants (Basel) 2023; 12:2914. [PMID: 37631126 PMCID: PMC10458043 DOI: 10.3390/plants12162914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Revised: 08/07/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023]
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Climate change and land use and land cover (LULC) change are impacting the species' geographic distribution, causing range shifts and reducing suitable habitats. Asphodelus bento-rainhae subsp. bento-rainhae (AbR) is an endangered endemic plant restricted to Serra da Gardunha (Portugal), and knowledge of those changes will help to design conservation measures. MaxEnt was used to model AbR's current distribution and project it into the future, 2050, using the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway SSP3-7. The Portuguese LULC maps from 1951-1980, 1995, 2007, and 2018 were used to assess and quantify LULC changes over time. The results showed that the AbR current predicted distribution matches its actual known distribution, which will not be affected by future predicted climate change. The significant LULC changes were observed during the study periods 1951-1980 to 2018, particularly between 1951-1980 and 1995. Scrubland and Agriculture decreased by 5% and 2.5%, respectively, and Forests increased by 4% in the study area. In the occurrence area, Agriculture increased, and Forests decreased between 1980 and 2018, due to Orchard expansion (34%) and declines in Chestnut (16.9%) and Pine (11%) areas, respectively. The use of species distribution models and the LULC change analysis contributed to understanding current and future species distribution. The LULC changes will have a significant impact on future species distribution. To prevent the extinction of this endemic species in the future, it is crucial to implement conservation measures, namely species monitoring, replantation, and germplasm conservation, in addition to guidelines for habitat conservation.
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- Alice Maria Almeida
- School of Agriculture, Polytechnic University, IPCB—Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6001-909 Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- School of Agriculture, Polytechnic University, IPCB—Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6001-909 Castelo Branco, Portugal
- CERNAS—Research Center for Natural Resources, Environment and Society, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-084 Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- School of Agriculture, Polytechnic University, IPCB—Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6001-909 Castelo Branco, Portugal
- CERNAS—Research Center for Natural Resources, Environment and Society, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-084 Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- School of Agriculture, Polytechnic University, IPCB—Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6001-909 Castelo Branco, Portugal
- CERNAS—Research Center for Natural Resources, Environment and Society, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-084 Castelo Branco, Portugal
- CEF—Forest Research Centre, Superior Institute of Agronomy, Lisbon University, 1349-017 Lisbon, Portugal
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- School of Agriculture, Polytechnic University, IPCB—Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6001-909 Castelo Branco, Portugal
- MED&CHANGE—Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development & CHANGE–Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Évora University, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal
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Almeida AM, Ribeiro MM, Ferreira MR, Roque N, Quintela-Sabarís C, Fernandez P. Big data help to define climate change challenges for the typical Mediterranean species Cistus ladanifer L. Front Ecol Evol 2023. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1136224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/18/2023] Open
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Climate change’s huge impact on Mediterranean species’ habitat suitability and spatial and temporal distribution in the coming decades is expected. The present work aimed to reconstruct rockrose (Cistus ladanifer L.) historical and future spatial distribution, a typically Mediterranean species with abundant occurrence in North Africa, Iberian Peninsula, and Southern France. The R ensemble modeling approach was made using the biomod2 package to assess changes in the spatial distribution of the species in the Last Interglacial (LIG), the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), and the Middle Holocene (MH), in the present, and in the future (for the years 2050 and 2070), considering two Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5). The current species potential distribution was modeled using 2,833 occurrences, six bioclimatic variables, and four algorithms, Generalized Linear Model (GLM), MaxEnt, Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS), and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Two global climate models (GCMs), CCSM4 and MRI-CGCM3, were used to forecast past and future suitability. The potential area of occurrence of the species is equal to 15.8 and 14.1% of the study area for current and LIG conditions, while it decreased to 3.8% in the LGM. The species’ presence diaminished more than half in the RCP 4.5 (to 6.8% in 2050 and 7% in 2070), and a too low figure (2.2%) in the worst-case scenario (RCP 8.5) for 2070. The results suggested that the current climatic conditions are the most suitable for the species’ occurrence and that future changes in environmental conditions may lead to the loss of suitable habitats, especially in the worst-case scenario. The information unfolded by this study will help to understand future predictable desertification in the Mediterranean region and to help policymakers to implement possible measures for biodiversity maintenance and desertification avoidance.
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Ferreira MR, Almeida AM, Quintela-Sabarís C, Roque N, Fernandez P, Ribeiro MM. The role of littoral cliffs in the niche delimitation on a microendemic plant facing climate change. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0258976. [PMID: 34679129 PMCID: PMC8535191 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 10/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Obligate coastline taxa generally occupy very limited areas, especially when there is a close affinity with a specific coast type. Climate change can be a meaningful threat for them, reducing suitable habitat or forcing migration events. Cistus ladanifer subsp. sulcatus is an endemic plant of Portugal, known to occur only in the top of its south-western coast's prominent cliffs. In spite of being included in the annexes II and IV of the European Habitats Directive of Natura 2000 Network, this taxon is still understudied, especially regarding the effects of climate change on its distribution. To overcome such gap, Maxent was used to model the current distribution of C. ladanifer subsp. sulcatus and project its future distribution considering different General Circulation Models, periods (2050 and 2070) and Representation Concentration Pathways (4.5 and 8.5). The results suggested an extensive range contraction in the future, and extinction is a possible scenario. The proximity to littoral cliffs is crucial for this plant's occurrence, but these formations are irregularly distributed along the coast, hindering range expansions, further inhibited by a small dispersal capacity. Cistus ladanifer subsp. sulcatus will probably remain confined to south-western Portugal in the future, where it will continue to face relevant threats like human activity, reinforcing the need for its conservation.
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- Miguel R. Ferreira
- Departamento de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Escola Superior Agrária, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- Departamento de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Escola Superior Agrária, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
- C4—Centro de Competências em Cloud Computing (C4-UBI), Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
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- Departamento de Edafoloxía e Quimica Agrícola, Facultade de Bioloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Espanha
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- Departamento de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Escola Superior Agrária, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
- QRural—Qualidade de Vida no Mundo Rural, Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- Departamento de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Escola Superior Agrária, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
- MED—Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra, Évora, Portugal
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- Departamento de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Escola Superior Agrária, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
- CEF—Centro de Estudos Florestais, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- CERNAS—Pólo de Castelo Branco do Centro de Estudos de Recursos Naturais, Ambiente e Sociedade, Escola Superior Agrária, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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Pires H, Martins M, Matos AC, Cardoso L, Monteiro F, Roque N, Nunes T, Gottstein B, Cortes H. Geospatial analysis applied to seroepidemiological survey of canine leishmaniosis in east-central Portugal. Vet Parasitol 2019; 274:108930. [PMID: 31586700 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2019.108930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2019] [Revised: 09/20/2019] [Accepted: 09/21/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Despite the high prevalence of canine Leishmania infantum infection in Portugal, significant differences associated with different risk factors can be found between geographically contiguous areas. In this study, a geographical area within the central region of Portugal (municipalities of Proença-a-Nova, Mação and Vila de Rei) was investigated. An epidemiological survey involved the analysis by an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay of serum samples collected during the anti-rabies vaccination campaign from 282 dogs. Geospatial analysis showed the distribution of geospatial prevalence of leishmaniosis and has delimited two areas (clusters) with a statistically significant higher risk of seropositivity in dogs (p = 0.003 and p = 0.027, for clusters 1 and 2, respectively). The highest seroprevalence (56.0%; CI: 41.2-70.0) was found in Vila de Rei. Five land occupation types showed a possible influence on the geographic distribution of seropositivity, with statistically significant differences between seropositive and seronegative dogs. Land occupied by temporary irrigated crops (p = 0.026), olive groves (p = 0.013), complex cultural systems and parcelling (p = 0.021), open forests, logging and new plantations (p = 0.043) and watercourses (p = 0.012) influenced the geographical distribution of canine Leishmania infection. Seropositive dogs had a greater average area of occupied land (i.e. open forests, logging and new plantations) than the seronegative ones (3.1439 km2 versus 2.5650 km2, respectively; p = 0.043).
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- Humberto Pires
- Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, School of Agriculture, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, School of Agriculture, Castelo Branco, Portugal; QRural - Quality of Life in the Rural World - Research Unit, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, School of Agriculture, Castelo Branco, Portugal; QRural - Quality of Life in the Rural World - Research Unit, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal; CERNAS - Research Center for Natural Resources, Environment and Society, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
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- CECAV - Animal and Veterinary Research Centre, Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal
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- Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, School of Agriculture, Castelo Branco, Portugal; QRural - Quality of Life in the Rural World - Research Unit, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- CIISA - Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Mediterranean Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (ICAAM). University of Évora, Núcleo da Mitra, Évora, Portugal
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Ribeiro MM, Roque N, Ribeiro S, Gavinhos C, Castanheira I, Quinta-Nova L, Albuquerque T, Gerassis S. Bioclimatic modeling in the Last Glacial Maximum, Mid-Holocene and facing future climatic changes in the strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo L.). PLoS One 2019; 14:e0210062. [PMID: 30625214 PMCID: PMC6326469 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2018] [Accepted: 12/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Increasing forest wildfires in Portugal remain a growing concern since forests in the Mediterranean region are vulnerable to recent global warming and reduction of precipitation. Therefore, a long-term negative effect is expected on the vegetation, with increasing drought and areas burnt by fires. The strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo L.) is particularly used in Portugal to produce a spirit by processing its fruits and is the main income for forestry owners. Other applications are possible due to the fruit and leaves’ anti-oxidant properties and bioactive compounds production, with a potential for clinical and food uses. It is a sclerophyllous plant, dry-adapted and fire resistant, enduring the Mediterranean climate, and recently considered as a possibility for afforestation, to intensify forest discontinuity where pines and eucalypts monoculture dominate the region. To improve our knowledge about the species’ spatial distribution we used 318 plots (the centroid of a 1 km2 square grid) measuring the species presence and nine environmental attributes. The seven bioclimatic variables most impacting on the species distribution and two topographic features, slope and altitude, were used. The past, current and future climate data were obtained through WorldClim. Finally, the vulnerability of the strawberry tree to the effects of global climate change was examined in the face of two emission scenarios (RCP 4.5 and 8.5), to predict distribution changes in the years 2050 and 2070, using a species distribution models (MaxEnt). The reduction of suitable habitat for this species is significant in the southern regions, considering the future scenarios of global warming. Central and northern mountainous regions are putative predicted refuges for this species. Forest policy and management should reflect the impact of climate change on the usable areas for forestry, particularly considering species adapted to the Mediterranean regions and wildfires, such as the strawberry tree. The distribution of the species in the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and Mid-Holocene (MH) agrees with previous genetic and paleontological studies in the region, which support putative refuges for the species. Two in the southern and coastal-central regions, since the LGM, and one in the east-central mountainous region, considered as cryptic refugia.
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- Maria Margarida Ribeiro
- Departamento de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior Agrária, Castelo Branco, Portugal
- Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal
- Centro de Biotecnologia de Plantas da Beira Interior, Quinta da Senhora de Mércules, Castelo Branco, Portugal
- Centro de Recursos Naturais, Ambiente e Sociedade (CERNAS) - Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- Departamento de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior Agrária, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação em Agronomia, Alimentos, Ambiente e Paisagem (Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food), Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Tapada da Ajuda, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Departamento de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior Agrária, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- Departamento de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior Agrária, Castelo Branco, Portugal
- Centro de Recursos Naturais, Ambiente e Sociedade (CERNAS) - Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- Departamento de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior Agrária, Castelo Branco, Portugal
- Centro de Recursos Naturais, Ambiente e Sociedade (CERNAS) - Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal
- Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, Vigo University, Lagoas, Marcosende, Vigo, Spain
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Antunes IMHR, Albuquerque MTD, Roque N. Spatial environmental risk evaluation of potential toxic elements in stream sediments. Environ Geochem Health 2018; 40:2573-2585. [PMID: 29777411 DOI: 10.1007/s10653-018-0124-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/08/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Potential toxic elements (PTE), in stream sediments, were used as contamination indicators for the definition of high-/low-grade spatial clusters in the Monfortinho area (Central Portugal). A set of 271 stream sediment samples was used for spatial modelling and further definition of rings of enrichment-high and low rings. A three-step multivariate statistical and geostatistical approach was used: (1) principal components analysis for PTE's association evaluation and dimensionality reduction; (2) ordinary kriging as an unbiased interpolator for content inference and construction of a continuous representation of the considered attributes, at any arbitrary spatial location; (3) G clustering algorithm for the definition of high and low significance clusters. A moderate contamination in stream sediments is observed for almost all the considered PTE and a very high contamination for Ba, Cr and B. High contamination clusters are observed for Fe, Ni, Ba, Cu, B, Zn, V-northwest and southeast clusters-and for Cr-north and southwest clusters. The contamination degree index varies from moderate to high, which is mainly associated with the old mineralizations. The high computed rings often overlap the areas of abandoned Ba-Zn mineralization, as well as the sedimentary gold concentrations, along the Erges River banks. Tin and Cd spatial distribution may be related to former cassiterite exploitations in the survey area. Chromium is possibly connected with the schists. The definition of clusters with a PTE spatial enrichment will allow for the identification of contamination activities and therefore, the definition of adequate monitoring and mitigation actions.
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- I M H R Antunes
- ICT/University of Minho, CERENA/University of Lisbon, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal.
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- Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, CERENA/University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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- . Florida State University
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Yoon J, Roque N, Andringa R, Griffis Lewis K, Harrell E, Vitale T, Charness N. INTERVENTION COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS FOR ADULT COGNITIVE TRAINING (ICE-ACT) (CLINICALTRIALS#:NCT03141281). Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy031.3570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Roque N, Boot W. A NEW SCALE FOR ASSESSING OLDER ADULTS’ WIRELESS NETWORK PROFICIENCY. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.1781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Indy Tamayose C, Mesquita JT, Lima ML, Galuppo MK, Tempone AG, Roque N, Ferreira MJP. Anti-trypanosomal activity of flavones and chlorogenic acids from Moquiniastrum floribundum (Asteraceae). Am J Transl Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1608115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Adolfo Lutz Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Adolfo Lutz Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Adolfo Lutz Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Bahia Federal University, Salvador, Brazil
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- W.R. Boot
- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida,
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- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida,
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- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida,
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- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia,
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- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia,
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Roque N, Boot W. Exploring the Relationship between Object-Based Attention Effects and Object Realism. J Vis 2014. [DOI: 10.1167/14.10.1065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Silva FO, Kevan SD, Roque N, Viana BF, Kevan PG. Records on floral biology and visitors of Jacquemontia montana (Moric.) Meisn. (Convolvulaceae) in Mucugê, Bahia. BRAZ J BIOL 2010; 70:671-6. [PMID: 20730356 DOI: 10.1590/s1519-69842010000300027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2008] [Accepted: 04/30/2009] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
We present the first records on pollination biology of Jacquemontia montana (Moric.) Meisn. (Convolvulaceae), a widespread climber in the Chapada Diamantina. Our objectives were to (1) characterise flower morphology and biology of J. montana; (2) sample flower visitors and (3) make inferences about potential pollinators, based on foraging behaviour. Observations and sampling were performed on two patches from 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM, May 15th to 16th, 2007. The corolla is bowl shaped, pentamerous, gamopetalous, actinomorphic, and yellow, with a mean diameter of 22.43 +/- 1.81 mm, the depth being variable during flower phases. Stigma receptivity lasted from 8:00 AM-3:30 PM and pollen viability from 9:00 AM-3:30 PM Pollen. showed great decline in number but not in viability during anthesis. Nectarivorous (Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera) and herbivorous (Orthoptera) insects were found on the flowers. Both male and female bees (Dialictus spp., Robertson 1902) were the most frequent flower visitor. The bees' behaviour, and time spent on flowers, varied according to the resource gathered (i.e., pollen or nectar). The Dialictus species are likely to be the main pollinator of J. montana, considering the frequency, contact with reproductive parts, and carrying only J. montana pollen spread over the ventral part of the thorax, abdomen and legs. Although not quantified, nectar may still be available in the afternoon, considering the behaviour of bees on flowers during this time. Pollen:ovule ration that was1.200:4, suggests facultative xenogamy.
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Affiliation(s)
- F O Silva
- Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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